# Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2009, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180 "2009-02-24T08:54:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/1 "2009-02-24T08:54:18Z")
The fourth and (hopefully not) final Futurama Movie is available in the US today! WOOooo! The plot is based on Environmentalism and Miniature Golf, with a touch of Feminism thrown in for good measure. Their are lots of classic “Futurama” moments, in-jokes, and running gags to keep you occupied while you watch the story unfold. Out of the four movies, I’d rate this as number 2. I think it has the closest “feel” to the original series of all four movies. Free Shovels! ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/2 "2009-02-24T13:07:07Z")
> [@CoG888](#): > > Out of the four movies, I’d rate this as number 2. I think it has the closest “feel” to the original series of all four movies. If this is number 2, where do the rest fall? While I haven’t seen Green Yonder yet, I’d rate them like this… 1. Bender’s Game 2. Bender’s Big Score 3. Beast With a Billion Backs ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/3 "2009-02-24T21:39:22Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > If this is number 2, where do the rest fall? While I haven’t seen Green Yonder yet, I’d rate them like this… > > 1. Bender’s Game > 2. Bender’s Big Score > 3. Beast With a Billion Backs My ranking is close to yours… 1. Bender’s Big Score 2. Into the Wild Green Yonder 3. Bender’s Game 4. Beast With a Billion Backs … Not that I didn’t like BwaBB, I just liked the others more. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/4 "2009-02-24T22:40:31Z")
Mine is still on order–no spoilers, please! ---
**Author:** ![ReuvenB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@ReuvenB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReuvenB)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/5 "2009-02-24T23:51:14Z")
I’m still not done watching it, but this one may be my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/6 "2009-02-25T00:04:48Z")
I didn’t find it very funny. There was too much that was just in there for the sake of the story. The bender sub story wasn’t funny at all. Too much stuff involving cheating death. The poker was stupid. Why does Fry need to know bender’s hand in order to decide whether to call preflop with aces? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/7 "2009-02-25T01:05:50Z")
Written by Ken Keeler (after whom apparently everything in the universe is named) and David X. Cohen Special appearances by Snoop Dogg, Penn Gillette, Phil Hendrie, and a special musical performance by Seth McFarlane This one was probably my second favorite Futurama movie after _Bender’s Big Score_. Some parts of the plot (Bender’s affair with the Donbot’s wife, and maybe a few others) seemed like obvious padding to have a self-contained episode plotline for each “episode” when it becomes episodes, but the main plot was very clever, and even the message was done in a non-heavy-handed way. And the ending, without giving anything away, was a very clever way of commenting on the “is this the end…again?” thing. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/8 "2009-02-25T02:56:43Z")
Maybe I’m still buzzing, but I thought this was terrific and the best of the four. The last half of so was excellent- I laughed very hard at “World Class A-Hole” and there was a long string of good jokes after that. Loved the ending. My ranking would go like this: Into the Wild Green Yonder Beast with a Billion Backs Bender’s Game Bender’s Big Score ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/9 "2009-02-25T07:11:02Z")
I’m surprised by Seth MacFarlane’s involvement, I thought Groening hated him. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/10 "2009-02-26T04:17:40Z")
I guess my hopes were too high for this. I was expecting it to be heavier on the Fry/Leela storyline. A lot of the humor worked, but unfortunately, a lot of it _didn’t_ work, and a failed joke is worse than an absent joke. Some of the stuff with Snoop Dogg was borderline cringeworthy (“if it would pizzle the cizzle,” and “throw your hands in the air!” “should we wave them like we just don’t care?” come on guys. You’re more original than that.) As of now, I would rank them like this: 1. Bender’s Big Score 2. Beast 3. Bender’s Game 4. Yonder HOWEVER . . . I didn’t like Bender’s Big Score the first time I saw it, and absolutely fell in love with it on subsequent viewings. I’m going to watch this again sometime in the next couple days and it won’t surprise me if my feelings change. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/11 "2009-02-26T04:56:20Z")
As always, the best line went to Zapp Brannigan. Zapp: “How many men did we lose?” Kiff: “All of them” Zapp: “Well at least they won’t have to mourn each other” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/12 "2009-02-26T04:59:04Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Some of the stuff with Snoop Dogg was borderline cringeworthy Yeah, that definitely didn’t work for me either. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/13 "2009-02-26T05:12:18Z")
Personally, I thought it was the best of the four. My favorite bit has to be when the Professor is proud of his 301-inch TV, until suddenly, upon hearing of a 302-incher, decides it’s junk and destroys it. And then a succession of inch-larger TV sets appear throughout the rest of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/14 "2009-02-26T05:19:21Z")
The blonde and the black woman with the double ponytail were driving me nuts until I remembered they were Slurms Mackenzie’s party girls. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/15 "2009-02-26T05:51:52Z")
This is going to be a close tie for my favorite, along with Bender’s Game. I’ll have to wait a few days and watch it again to see how it holds up. I’m sad this was the last of the scheduled 4 movies though. I still want more ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/16 "2009-02-26T16:07:38Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I’m surprised by Seth MacFarlane’s involvement, I thought Groening hated him. [Not so much, says Groening in this interview that, by some weird coincidence, is running just after the release of the movie.](http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/26/matt.groening.futurama/index.html) Contains some interesting non-Futurama stuff, too. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/17 "2009-02-26T17:17:29Z")
Totally horrible and a disappointment. Did the Fanny/Poker subplot serve ANY purpose? It was also cheap to go back to the Delta Wave excuse yet AGAIN… It’s especially sad when you consider that right now there’s nothing else even in PRE-production, so this might be the very final Futurama episode. I would rank them: 1. Bender’s Game 2. Beast With a Billion Backs 3. Bender’s Big Score 4. Into the Wild Green Yonder. It needed a B title… ---
**Author:** ![luvrbcs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@luvrbcs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luvrbcs)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/18 "2009-02-26T18:04:19Z")
I did not know there were movies. Not that I’m cheap (well, maybe a little), can I find them online, like Hulu or something? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/19 "2009-02-26T18:09:22Z")
I rented them. Apart from Big Score which I watched 4 times in as many days (a total anomaly for me), and Beast which I watched like one and a half times, I didn’t re-watch Bender’s Game, and I’ll probably only watch Yonder one more time before I return it. There are too many movies to watch, games to play, and books to read in the world for me to keep revisiting the same ones over and over, and I don’t have that need to see a possession sitting on my shelf like a lot of people do. I haven’t bought a DVD that I can recall in about 7 or 8 years-- though I amassed a fairly huge collection of them in the couple years before that, which is how I learned the lesson I just shared with you. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180/20 "2009-02-26T21:28:51Z")
Got it yesterday, watched it today. Good, but a plot that was all over the place. Lots of open plot threads, if they wanna try for more DVDs. Overall, **A-**. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-into-the-wild-green-yonder/487180.md?page=2)